Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f764ed63f2cdc8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.2 KB
MD5: fff35faf8ae0ede981413ec7e156685e SHA-1: ed2f848fd9350858f34078c3c6e2c2bd677eb44e SHA-256: 2f764ed63f2cdc8c66d790cad927174c001a9ceda749ffa81d8ab8632dc110c7
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. An embedded script payload was also detected, and ClamAV identified the file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded artifact was further flagged by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-27, suggesting the exploit likely leads to JavaScript execution.

Heuristics 6

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000238.bin
d6c5cdc62f9b916a06e7a6ef412a0ebab7af39499a7b3591e1811766c56b260e
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113149 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely